Future releases
All dates and features sets on Future releases are subject to change
For past releases, see the release notes page. What release am I running?
Next-generation releases will not come from OLPC
From http://blog.laptop.org/2009/02/05/q-a-from-xo-camp/ , Nicholas Negroponte stated in a Q&A session:
- In what way will OLPC support the community in this transition? Will OLPC keep improving and debugging the software of the already delivered XOs?
- OLPC will move to a Linux desktop that will run Sugar as an application. Fedora 10, which shipped in November, is a major step in this direction. It’s a standard Fedora distribution that will boot on the XO-1 and includes Sugar as one of the desktop options. OLPC is working with the Fedora Project and Sugar Labs to provide a more tightly-integrated and better-performing version of this solution in the Fedora 11 release.
Many Linux distributions already run on the XO-1 hardware, and offer Sugar as a desktop option. Coordinating the latest pieces of the software stack is complicated work:
- XO changes to system software
- Enabling XO features on other distributions
- latest firmware
- latest Sugar from http://SugarLabs.org
So as of February 2009 there is no one release equivalent to joyride that has the latest of all these. The future is in development.
Future release work elsewhere
- http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/rawhide-xo/ : Fedora rawhide software images for the XO-1
- http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/xoimages/ : "Sugar on a Stick" images that run on the XO-1.
These are not ready for widespread adoption yet.
Naming scheme
The first number in the release is its year. The second number represents the first or second major release in that year. The third number is incremented for each minor release.
For example, "8.2.0" is the second major release in 2008, and "8.1.1" is an update to the first major release in 2008.
XO releases
Software which one runs on the XO laptop.
Past Releases
See Release notes for past releases.
Future Releases
9.1.0 - Future
- Status
- On indefinite hold. Requirements, schedule and full release were being tracked at 9.1.0
- Maintainer
- Ed
- Primary objective
- Deployability
- Schedule
- Must be posted by March, 2009
8.2.1 - Future
- Status
- Target bug list chosen, Candidate release available (see Friends in testing. Work begun, test plan written. See: ECO/8.2.1 and Test cases 8.2.1 Draft release notes available here: Release_Notes/8.2.1
- Maintainer
- Ed M.
- Primary objective
- Uruguay critical deployment bugs and fixes.
- Schedule
- Target to post in January, 2009
8.1.3 (incomplete)
This release was created for Ethiopia, but it didn't meet their deadline, so it will not be formally released. The fixes have been added to Release 8.2.
XS Releases
XO School server software.
Past XS Releases
Future XS Releases
See the School server roadmap.